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Chanya’s timeline

Friday, May 30, 2008
Chanya laughs. I was *chewing* on her neck, and she just laughed about it. She did it twice.

Saturday, June 28, 2008
Chanya rolls over! I was doing the 100 push-up challenge, and Chanya was on her belly opposite me. I was struggling with a push-up when I saw her out of the corner of my eye roll over. I looked up, and Chanya was lying on her back!

Saturday, July 12, 2008
Chanya has her first breast milk only day since all the problems began. She also had a bowel movement!

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Chanya rolls over from back to belly! She’s been working on this trick for some time now, never quite knowing what to do with her right arm. She figured it out tonight. Next step? Crawling!

Friday, August 15, 2008
Chanya creeps! I put her on the floor near the Kiana doll, and Chanya pushed herself and the doll across the floor. First she pushed against my hands, and then against the floor. She was really slobbering all over the doll’s face and hair too.

Saturday, September 27, 2008
Chanya creeps forward! She has been scooting backwards for about a week, and today, she propelled herself forward. Granted, one arm is plastered underneath her body, but we’re literally talking baby steps here.

Friday, October 10, 2008
Chanya crawls. After rocking back and forth on her hands and knees, Chanya actually moved forward–to get a toy out of Joy’s hands. She can almost go from crawling to sitting position, but now she falls over when she’s almost there.

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Chanya sits. She can now go from a crawling to a sitting position, and back.

Monday, November 3, 2008
Chanya claps! I did “the wheels on the bus” with the baby for the first time in weeks today, and she was clapping on her own later on. (Babies learn to clap doing ‘the doors on the bus. . . “)

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Chanya stands by herself! It was brief, but beautiful. More to come soon, I hope.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Chanya says, “go!” I told Esteban to “GO” in putting on his pajamas, and Chanya copied me. Then she said it again on command.

January 2009
Chanya stands! She has been known to take a few steps too, but those are more the exception than the rule. Her balance standing up is getting much better, though, and she is good at cruising.

Thursday, February 5, 2009
Chanya walks! I always knew babies move to get something they want. Chanya took three real steps (as opposed to her tentative 1/2 steps of the last few days), because she wanted to get to Esteban’s toy cars.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Chanya can walk and turn and almost run. Maureen came over today, (bringing Xay back from a couple nights at her house), and she convinced Chanya to walk to me several times. By bedtime, she was running to Yanni.

August, 2009
Chanya is talking. She says: up, eat, go out, daddy, mommy, and I swear she said, “pancake” on 8/9.

Late August-Early September 2009
Chanya sleeps through the night. If she eats enough for dinner, and has had enough nap time the day before, Chanya will sleep until 5 AM, when she wakes for a bottle. After the bottle, she may sleep until 6:30, 7 AM.

September 13, 2009
Chanya pees in the potty! Every evening when we go upstairs to brush teeth and get ready for bed–especially before bath time, we put Chanya on the potty after her diaper is off. Then I make the baby potty training noise, sssssss. Sometimes we’d take her down, and her butt would be wet, so we’d assume she’d pee. Tonight, as soon as she walked in the bathroom, she started making the sssssss sound, (as she’s been doing lately), and I put her on the potty. Esteban started talking about having to go to the bathroom, and while I thought about telling him to go to the other bathroom, we heard a tinkle sound in the toilet. Chanya peed! We were excited, and she was excited, and Curtis gave her a high five, and she ran around a minute with bare behind. We’ll keep playing this potty game and see where it leads.

Sunday, September 13, 2009
Chanya Jumps! She’s been working on this one for a while, but now she can jump with both feet off the ground and land on her feet. This is the most advanced of all my children.

Friday, December 18, 2009
Chanya said, “Look! It’s a baby!” when she looked at a picture of herself.

Monday, August 30, 2010
Chanya has a bowel movement in the potty. I tried to snatch her up, thinking she wasn’t doing anything, but she insisted she wasn’t done peeing. Sure enough, she was using the potty.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
I heard the little girls making up and singing a song. Joy sang, “I love my little sister,” and Chanya sang, “I yuv my yittle sister!”

Monday, June 20, 2011
Chanya has been potty training for months now. She stayed dry while we used candy for training, in the early days. Then we weaned her off the candy, and Chanya started having accidents every day. We decided to reintroduce the candy to train Chanya to stay dry during the day. After a week of candy, with daily accidents, Chanya stayed dry all day today!